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China's Soft Power Campaign To Influence Asia and the World

Asia Matters Podcast

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China's Influence in Southeast Asia - What You Found in Your Research

In Thailand, you have a creeping, creeping ability of China to influence politics and then probably in the long run elections. They've done so through Xinhua has enormous number of content sharing agreements there. There's only really two independent publishing houses left into the major effort recently by a ethnic Chinese tycoon to buy up one of them and probably close it. But I think that's probably coming in Thailand, especially if the military aligned parties win the election coming up this year. You will see a much closer relationship and then perhaps that sort of, not just pro-China sentiment among politicians, but links where China sort of actively supports them. That is sorry, just not to be windy,

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